Holywood Motte

Holywood Motte is an archaeological site in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland. Holywood Motte is situated nearby to First Holywood Pesbyterian Church, as well as near Holywood Methodist Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Holywood Priory and Holywood railway station.

Holywood Priory

Church

Holywood Priory is a medieval monastic ruin in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland. Built in the late 12th or early 13th century on the site of an earlier monastery, it was later used by the Franciscans and dissolved in 1541 during the reign of Henry VIII. Holywood Priory is situated 620 feet north of Holywood Motte.

Holywood railway station

Railway station

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Holywood railway station serves Holywood in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is located along the shore of Belfast Lough and during the Summer months, provides excellent views over the lough to Carrickfergus. Holywood railway station is situated 1,900 feet west of Holywood Motte.

Marino railway station

Railway station

Photo: Aubrey Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Marino railway station is a railway station in the townland of Ballycultra in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland. Marino railway station is situated 3,500 feet northeast of Holywood Motte.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Holywood and Dundonald.

Holywood

Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Holywood is a town five miles northeast of Belfast. It's historically in County Down, but since 2015 has been governed as part of Ards and North Down District, along with Bangor and Newtownards.

Dundonald

Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dundonald is a town in the traditional County Down, east of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It lies east of Belfast and is a suburb of the city. It is home to Moat Park, the Ulster Hospital, and Dundonald International Ice Bowl.

Ballybeen

Suburb

Photo: Dean Molyneaux, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ballybeen, also known as Ballybeen Housing Estate, is the second-biggest housing estate in Northern Ireland. It is in the village of Dundonald, on the outskirts of east Belfast. Ballybeen is situated 4 miles south of Holywood Motte.

Holywood Motte

Type: Archaeological site
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.64145° or 54° 38′ 29″ north

Longitude

-5.83077° or 5° 49′ 51″ west

Open location code

9C6PJ5R9+HM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 8483209669

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

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